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Hoopoe (Upupa epops), winters, only met with at Chargalyk.
Woodpeckers (Picus sp.), habitant, very common.
Sand-grouse (Syrrhaptes paradoxus) rare, habitant.
Turtle-dove (Twrtw vitticollis[1], T. sp.), only met with at Chargalyk.
Harelda glacialis. | rare, only single specimens seen in November. | |
Anas ehjpeata, | ||
Cormorant (Carbo earmoranus), | ||
Brown-headed Gull (Larus brunneicephalus), | ||
Common bittern (Botaurus stellaris) | said to winter in small numbers among the reedy unfrozen parts of Lob-nor. | |
Swan (Cygnus olor?) |
- ↑ [Called in Kashmir Kookail. — M.] [N.B. — Many of the birds here mentioned will be found described and some figured in "Lahore to Yarkand," by Henderson and Hume, and in Blanford's "Ornithological Notes to Eastern Persia."— M.]